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The Twin Buttes Mining & Smelting Co., formed in 1905, exploited the property with a 28-mile standard gauge railroad to Tucson for ore transport and a smelter along the Santa Cruz River.

Other improvements followed with the erection of a narrow gauge railroad in 1906 that connected the nearby mines to the Silver City Smelter.